Several Novell applications, such as Contextless Login, LDAP Services for NDS, and Novell® Licensing Services use Catalog Services to speed up their Directory searches. They create their own catalogs.
Contextless Login, for example, includes in its catalog the User objects, their telephone numbers, and their Given Names. LDAP includes, among other things, users' common names (CN) and their Internet e-mail addresses.
WARNING: Do not modify catalogs that are created by applications. Doing so may negatively affect the application's operation.
If a catalog was created by an application, the application might have created a label that identifies it as belonging to the application.
The application can designate its catalog as being updated (refreshed) automatically.
An application has to be Novell Catalog Services-enabled to generate catalogs. (Catalog Services APIs are part of the Novell SDK.)